he's lecturing you on how caffeine works for half an hour when you just asked "how do you take your coffee". he forgets how to say his own name. he's giving the team a speech and dropping his phone and grabbing it really quickly and looking around hoping no one else noticed it. he describes himself as "pretty geek". he can't remember the last time he screamed or shouted. he's gentle parenting his drivers. he's 44 years of old. he's james vowles.
like. he's always been so loyal to mercedes. i don't even want to know what the point of no return was, for him. whatever it was, it must be something fucking HUGE.
I cannot believe Lewis has managed to make his McLaren -> Mercedes jump look calm and orderly. That shit was the most insane driver move for a decade and almost an exact decade later he goes "alright let's try that again"
2023’s Top Ten Chaotic Moments of the F1 Season (in no particular order)
The De Vries ➡️ Ricciardo ➡️ Lawson ➡️ Ricciardo musical chairs
The Mclaren boys getting their laptimes deleted live on camera post Qatar Quali under the befuddled eyes of George Russell 🧍♂️
George’s T-pose, Estie’s slayful catwalk and Charles’ soulful longing look in the F1 intro 💃
Charles’ triple threat of DNF/DNS/DSQ in one season 🥲
Several broken trophies this year (starting with the one Lando sent to the shadow realms with his champagne pop) 🍾
Max smacking that RBR sticker on Charles, shaking him around and then turning to the camera like 😀
Mika Häkkinen’s gift of prophecy: the man said McLaren would suddenly become competitive and we laughed at him 👁️
The stressed pairs of Merc/Ferrari guys being summoned to the stewards about the planks in Austin and showing up with the power of a piece of paper and a vape 💨
So many inter-teams padel dates?? 🎾
Perez’s Japan run: crashed, changed wing, got a penalty, crashed again, changed wing again, retired, unretired, served his penalty and retired again 🪦
Honourable mentions 🥈 :
Carlos illegitimate child rumour one hot afternoon on f1twt
Dany Ric sniped by that flying tyre in lap 1 of Brazil despite not being involved in the accident
Vegas Hunger Games opening ceremony
Seb’s bee corner
1644 mood collaborative insta post after joint DSQ in COTA
A lot of James Vowles thirst on the TL
Charles Leclerc, known non-believer, plans a pilgrimage to Lourdes to get rid of his curse
Lance falling off wet stairs
Nando being a tik tok celebrity
Dishonourable mentions :
Qatar heat
Vegas drain cover
Piastri being a punching bag on wheels for other drivers for a few races straight